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Being a SW guy at my day job, I really don't want to play SW engineer on the nights and weekends. That's exactly why I fell out of love with home automation.
by inferiorhuman 3y ago
Being a SW guy at my day job, I really don't want to play SW engineer
on the nights and weekends.
That's exactly why I fell out of love with home automation. The commercial stuff isn't better than HA. I don't want to care what brand my zigbee lights are. I don't want to come home and debug Siri or that god awful Hue app. I just want to turn my fucking lights on.
Home automation promises Star Trek and delivers the bastard offspring of 2001 and Galaxy Quest.
- mattbrewsbytes 3y agoIt might be neat to voice activate a mood with lights, music, etc. but the amount of effort to set that up and maintain all of that is literally 100x the effort I'd spend flipping a couple switches and turning on a playlist on a speaker. Literally 60 seconds to do it manually (assuming you know/have setup a playlist). The only "smart" devices I have are for a room where you want a switch for a lamp but there isn't a switched outlet. Add a smart plug and a physical switch, done. No hub, no scripts, no automation. Its cheaper than buying smart bulbs which usually require some manufacturer's hub/app/nonsense.
- plagiarist 3y agoMy lights work pretty reliably, but I've done hours of research on goddamn lightbulbs. And then automating schedules and programming switches is harder than it should be.